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We view as false the premise that academic freedom and antiracism are in opposition.

What is at stake with Nikole Hannah-Jones being denied tenure Siva Vaidhyanathan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Tenure at American universities is not given. It’s earned. Those of us fortunate enough to have had a shot at earning it understand all too well the effort it takes to earn tenure, the costs of failing, and privilege it conveys. It’s very difficult to fire us for researching, teaching, and professing heterodox ideas. We tenured ...

This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. This is a guest post from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. She is a theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, out now from Bold Type Books. You can find her on Twitter @IBJIYONGI. The last year has raised the political consciousness of people across the United States — and the world — who for various ...

Republican state lawmakers want to punish schools that teach the 1619 Project Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th Replay Video UP NEXT This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Lawmakers in several statehouses this year want to stop lesson plans that focus on the centrality of slavery to American history as presented in The New York Times’ 1619 Project, previewing new battles in states over con...

Lawmakers in at least five states filed bills that threaten to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about slavery, racism and U.S. history.